Yume no Crayon Oukoku

Yume no Crayon Oukoku
Promotional image from the anime series, displaying Princess Silver and her friends
夢のクレヨン王国 (Yume no Kureyon Ōkoku)
Genre	Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Anime television series
Directed by	Junichi Sato
Music by	Takanori Arisawa
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi (1997-1999)
Original run	September 7, 1997 – January 31, 1999
Episodes	70
Manga
Written by	Mine Yoshizaki
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Original run	August 1997 – August 1998
Volumes	3

Yume no Crayon Oukoku(夢のクレヨン王国, Yume no Kureyon Ōkoku^?, lit. The Crayon Kingdom of Dreams) is a seventy-episode anime television series created by Toei Animation and broadcast from 1997 to 1999. It was based on the novel series by Reizo Fukunaga, and was adapted into a manga by Mine Yoshizaki and serialized in Nakayoshi from 1997 to 1998. It has been dubbed into French, Italian, Korean and Chinese. The original features the voice talents of Yuka Tokumitsu as Princess Silver.

The civilians of the Crayon Kingdom have always viewed their Princess Silver as a twelve-year-old girl with a beautiful smile. However, unknown to them, the princess has 12 bad habits. This has created much distress to the Chameleon Prime Minister and the Crayon ministers for it would be embarrassing if this gets out.

One day, a party is held to celebrate Silver's twelfth birthday. The princess is so busy trying to find a suitable dance-partner that she forgets to hide her bad habits. The boy she thinks suitable to dance with refuses to dance and, after a short quarrel, he changes Silver's parents, the King and Queen, into stone.

Along with a pig named Stonston and a chicken named Araessa, Silver learns that only the Grim Reaper is capable of casting a spell like that, and she assumes that the boy was actually him in disguise. So begins their quest to find the boy Reaper. They do not realize, that the boy and the Grim Reaper are two different people entirely. The Grim Reaper is trying to kill Silver, whose ancestor trapped him in a mirror for several thousand years. The boy is trying to save her, and her parents, whom he transformed into stone to prevent them from being killed.